Reasons for Dutch economic prosperity
Urbanism, Agriculture, Shipbuilding, Overseas Commercial Empire
Emergence of the Netherlands as a Nation
Religious Characteristics
Contemporary Impressions of Dutch Society
Governmental System
1581: United Provinces of the Netherlands
Toleration
Everyone
Republic
Who was William III of Orange in the Netherlands?
The stadholder of Holland
Two most important models of European Political Organization?
Absolute Monarchy & Parliamentary Monarchy
Characteristics of Absolute Rule (2)
Strong financial base + fully independent
James I
Stuart Monarch
Mary Queen of Scots
Protestant, Catholic sympathies
Only when he absolutely had to
Reasons for Suspicion of James I’s foreign policy
reflected pro-catholic sentiments
Charles I’s extra-parliamentary measures
levies new taxes, quarters troops in private homes
The Petition of Right
states that Charles I needs Parliamentary permission before he can impose new taxes
Consequences of the religious policies of Charles I
Bishops Wars
Long Parliament
1640-1660
Executes Charles I’s chief advisors: Laudy & Stafford
Trienial Act
English Civil War
1642-1646
Oliver Cromwell
Execution of Charles and the Republic of the Commonwealth
England under Oliver Cromwell
“lord protector”
military dictatorship
puritan
3 things England wanted to restore after Oliver Cromwell
Monarchy
House of Lords
Anglican Church
Treaty of Dover
Charles II + France against the Netherlands
He’ll convert to catholicism when the time is right
Test Act
Swear an oath against Transubstantiation
James, Charles’ brother
The Popish Plot
Titus Oates
Charles II’s wife is plotting with the Jesuits and the Irish to kill him
Declaration of Indulgence of 1687
James II
Free worship to protestants
The Glorious Revolution
1688
James II
William and Mary
Act of Settlement of 1701
passed by
contents
Passed by William and Mary
English Crown will go to Hanovers of Germany
Act of Union of 1707
passed by
what it does
Anne Stuart
Unites England and Scotland into the United Kingdom
Robert Walpole was the first..
Prime Minister
Cardinal Armand Rechelieu
heavy handed centralization
Fronde
Mazarin
Louis XIV
72 Years
Required nobles to be dependent on him
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Sun King